Inclusive Dance

The Story of Touchdown Dance

Katy Dymoke (Touchdown Dance / Embody Move)

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Intellect Books
14 August 2023

Contemporary dance; Social discrimination; Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice

Personal accounts of the work of Touchdown Dance and inclusivity in dance performance projects.

Inclusive Dance offers a concise ethnography of disability arts and a historiographic overview of the field in the 1980s when many new disability arts groups emerged in the UK. It focuses in particular on the inclusive teaching modalities of Touchdown Dance, which was the work of dancer Steve Paxton and theater-maker and psychotherapist Anne Kilcoyne. It involved visually impaired and sighted adults in a dyadic movement form called Contact Improvisation. Katy Dymoke took over Touchdown Dance in 1994, and this book draws on archives, participant accounts, and personal experience to detail the work of Touchdown Dance and its effects on its participants since its founding. Three guests from Touchdown Dance contribute eyewitness accounts of the methods and performance projects.

By: Katy Dymoke (Touchdown Dance / Embody Move)
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 812g
ISBN: 9781789388695
ISBN 10: 1789388694
Pages: 380
Publication Date: 14 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katy Dymoke is a dancer, dance teacher, dance-movement psychotherapist, dance film maker, working with all ages and abilities, infants to elderly. Katy makes dance films, writes books and walks in nature.

Reviews for Inclusive Dance: The Story of Touchdown Dance

Within the broad sweep of dance histories, we can overlook the complexity of how truly innovative practices emerge. This is a wonderfully in-depth account of Dymoke’s journey and the network of people (Paxton, Kilcoyne et al.) and events that led to the formation of Touchdown Dance and its concomitant breakthrough in inclusive pedagogy and praxis (which reached far beyond work with blind dancers). In a post pandemic era, it is also a timely reminder of the importance of touch and of the responsibility and role of dancer as researcher to question, explore and extend the boundaries of what we are told is possible. -- Adam Benjamin